"I am the ordinary son of an ordinary man"
: this is how Haruki Murakami concludes the short illustrated book that he devotes to his father, a first for a reputedly secretive writer who has never given up many secrets on his life.
He loves jazz, baseball, running, cats: these are the only details, even a little personal, which filtered out about the novelist until then.
The cats, it is question in this autobiographical text, a cat especially, whose history opens the collection.
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One day when he was a child, little Haruki left with his father on a bicycle, holding a box in which a cat was locked.
They left her a few kilometers further on a beach before returning home.
Murakami no longer remembers why his father had decided to abandon the animal, but he remembers his face which successively expressed
"amazement, admiration and relief"
at the sight of the little cat waiting for them. …
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